Fetchmail/Sendmail problem

Frank Carmickle frankiec at braille.uwo.ca
Wed Jul 25 04:24:49 EDT 2001


Hi Mike

First thing that should be fixed is you getting a reasonable
nameserver.  This should clear up the problems.  You really don't want to
change much in the way of sendmail configuration because you don't want to
open yourself up as a relay for spam.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Mike keithley wrote:

> This is probably off topic but the problem occurs getting mail from this
> list so I thought I'd ask the experts.
> 
> I use fetchmail to get mail from shellworld.net (my ISP).  Fetchmail
> negotiates with sendmail to get mail into my local mailbox.  Sendmail seems to 
> want to verify that the sender domain is valid and checks a route.  
> the intermittent problem is this:

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     Frank Carmickle
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